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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: updating ALL packages
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 18:18:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53D18640.3070805@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k374yy3t.fsf@nyu.edu>

On 07/23/2014 09:59 AM, gottlieb@nyu.edu wrote:
> 
> This must be wrong since my procedure does sometimes offer to update
> non-world packages

...

> I would still want to know if the executing the last emerge command is
> wise and also would like to understand what  my update world procedure
> is actually doing.

I think all you're missing is the build-time dependencies. If one
package needs another (say, cmake) to build but not to run, then portage
won't update it by default when you update @world. You can change that
behavior by passing --with-bdeps to emerge.

From `man emerge`:

  --with-bdeps < y | n >
    In dependency calculations, pull in build time dependencies that
    are not strictly required. This defaults to ´n´ for installation
    actions, meaning they will not be installed,  and  ´y´  for  the
    --depclean  action, meaning they will not be removed.  This set‐
    ting can be added to EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS (see make.conf(5))  and
    later overridden via the command line.



  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-24 22:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-23 13:24 [gentoo-user] updating ALL packages gottlieb
2014-07-23 13:59 ` [gentoo-user] " gottlieb
2014-07-24 22:18   ` Michael Orlitzky [this message]
2014-07-24 22:57 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2014-07-25  1:51   ` gottlieb
2014-07-25  4:13     ` Alan McKinnon
2014-07-25 14:42       ` gottlieb
2014-07-25  4:07 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-07-25 14:43   ` gottlieb

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